Offbeat 2015 Gallery

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In a picture taken on January 21, 2015, children dressed in uniform sing after raising the national flag at the Beichuan Red army elementary school in Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan province. China's push to encourage more couples to have a second child after decades of restrictive family planning policies has fallen short of expectations in the first year, state media reported in January. The world's most populous country has restricted most families to a single child since the late 1970s, but the Communist Party has started easing controls, allowing couples to have two offspring so long as one of the parents is an only child, rather than both. AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

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This picture taken on June 10, 2016 shows a pair of shoes put on the grass as the shadow appears next to them prior to a workout on the running track ahead of the Rio-2016 Olympics at Baraton campus near Eldoret town, aproximately 350 km north of capital, Nairobi, on June 10, 2016.
Made in the colours of Kenya's national flag, enda iten (swahili for Go!-Iten) is in the running to earn a place as a home-grown flagship of Kenya's high flying performance in international athletics with hopes of a debut in the forthcoming Olympic's in Rio, Brazil -2016. Founded in 2015 by Kenyan, Navalayo Osembo-Ombati with American entrepreneur Weldon Kennedy, enda iten is infused with the spirit of ?harambee,? a Swahili term that refers to coming together as a community to accomplish a goal and embodying the founders intent for benefit from Kenya's culture of, and international success at distance running by having a percentage of shoe's sales profits donated to fund projects aimed at improving access to clean water, sanitation, healthcare and education. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA

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